Leading up to the release ofAvatar : The Way of Water , James Cameron has been doing the imperativeness excursion round , and being the fastidious film maker he ’s known to be , he recentlycriticized how Marvel and DC lineament are written . The film producer commented , " It does n’t matter how old the theatrical role are , they all act like they ’re in college . They have human relationship , but they really do n’t . "

It ’s rare for a managing director to comment negatively about another theater director ’s movie , but Cameron is overbold enough and knows better than to name names . However , it has been recognize to happen , and some directors have outright refused to watch other director ' motion-picture show for specific reasons . And , sometimes , directors will even refuse to keep an eye on their own movies .

Edgar Wright - Ant-Man (2015)

Shaun of the Deaddirector Edgar Wright revealed that he has n’t seenAnt - Man , and that ’s credibly the face forAnt - Man and the Wasp , too . The film producer was originally attach to direct the 2015 Marvel Cinematic Universe motion-picture show , but Wright parted manner with the projectafter originative difference with Disney . Wright revealed thathe decided not to watchAnt - Manand uncover a hilarious run - in with it on a woodworking plane .

The film maker observe , " I decided not to watch it so I would never have to tell people what I thought of it . That say , once I was on a carpenter’s plane and a guy next to me was look out it and that was a bit awkward . " It ’s inauspicious that Wright finger that direction given thatAnt - Manstill uses his theme , and the filmmaker still has a authorship quotation on the exit .

Orson Welles - Rebel Without A Cause (1955)

Filmmaker Nicholas Ray was take care at as Orson Welles ' " disciple , " as his previous XL and early 50s picture bore so much influence of theCitizen Kanedirector . However , Welles never revalue the label that film critics gave Ray , and that ’s especially the case when it comes to Ray ’s chef-d’oeuvre , Rebel Without a Cause .

The movie is an all - time classic , but without giving much of a review , Welles simply recall , " I pass on the cinema after four reels ofRebel Without a Cause . I get raging just think about that film " ( viaWelles Net ) . His hate for the flick might have something to do with the fact that the puff racing movie was free a month after James Dean died in a machine crash , or it could simply be because Welles was magnificently stubborn . Either direction , he missed out by not watch the picture show ’s remaining six reel .

David Fincher - Alien 3: The Assembly Cut (2003)

Alien 3didn’t exactly get the decisive plaudits the first two movies in the dealership did , and it was a product of major studio apartment disturbance . Even directorDavid Fincher admitted he hates the moving picture . However , 11 years after the cinema ’s theatrical loss , the studio apartment releasedThe Assembly Cut , which have a much warmer reception and is much closer to Fincher ’s original vision .

But that does n’t seem to count to the celebrated thriller director , as Fincher refuse to watchThe Assembly Cut . In an interview withThe Guardian , when asked about the film ’s novel edit , the director bluntly responded , " I do n’t know who did it , I ’ve never visualise it , I ca n’t comment on it . " But he also hints that he refuses to watch any of his own motion picture , take note , " I do n’t look at anything after it ’s done . "

David Lynch - Dune (1984)

Studios have assay to adapt the larger-than-life sci - fi novel so many times , and they drift from complete undeveloped failure , such as Alejandro Jodorowski’sDune , to cinematic masterpieces , such as Denis Villeneuve’sDune . David Lynch ’s 1984 movie sit somewhere in the centre , and like withAlien 3 , it was a result of studio apartment preventative .

However , Lynch want a three - hr cutting , and then a 4.5 - hour VHS deletion , which was never going to bump . As a result , the two - hour final cut is an incoherent slew , and because of the bother he went through , Lynch has wholly disowned the film . However , he may have latterly change his mind , as Lynch recently extract thathe’d be opened to reworkingDune , remark , " if I could go back in I ’ve thought , well , perhaps I would on that one go back in . "

David Lynch - Dune (2021)

give that Lynch has called the period of directingDuneand its reply " a Brobdingnagian , mammoth sadness in my sprightliness " ( viaIndie Wire ) , it ’s surprising that the surrealist filmmaker does n’t stand for on watching the newfangled adjustment . consort toThe Film Stage , the director has " zero interest " in seeing the sci - fi epic .

Lynch ’s reluctance makes gumption , as Villeneuve was intelligibly give much more freedom to make the film he wants , and he has been given the chance to split the novel into two movies , so there ’s no atmospheric pressure to tell the full story within two hours . However , 2021’sDuneis spectacular looking , it brilliantly builds the reality , and it ’ll be interesting to see where Warner Bros. goes with it .

Quentin Tarantino - Natural Born Killers (1994)

Quentin Tarantino quickly became a rockstar in the other nineties , as the one - two puncher ofReservoir DogsandPulp Fictionturned him into a critical darling . Not only that , but he also sold two screenplays that were tight - tracked into production : True RomanceandNatural Born Killers .

agree toSlash Film , the filmmaker hump what theater director Tony Scott did withTrue Romance , but the same ca n’t be said for Oliver Stone ’s visual sense ofNatural Born Killers , and Tarantino has n’t exactly been coy about his feelings about it . The director has never seenNatural Born Killersin full , and he refuses to after all of Stone ’s playscript rewrites that Tarantino deemed unneeded . But it ’s stillone of the best erotic love narration in a Tarantino movie .

Quentin Tarantino - The Bride Wore Black (1968)

Natural Born Killersisn’t the only picture that Tarantino refuses to watch . After many critic point out the endless similarities betweenThe Bride Wore BlackandKill Bill , Tarantino denied that he has ever experience it . It ’s hard to believe that , being the cinephile that he is , he has n’t seen the classic Francois Truffaut movie .

But at the same metre , he is always the first to point out which films he directly take over from , so it ’s hard to tell how true Tarantino is being . It ’s like to the case ofReservoir Dogsessentially being a remake ofCity on Fire . Tarantino said ofThe Bride have on Black , " I ’ve just never been a huge Truffaut devotee . So that ’s why I never got around to see it . I ’m not rejecting it , I just never saw it " ( viaJap Attack ) .

Martin Scorsese - Joker (2019)

However , after say that aboutJoker , he also revealed that he never really see the motion picture , even despite being a producer on it ( viaCinema Blend ) . Scorsese explain , " I saw clip of it . I know it . So it ’s like , why do I want to ? I get it . It ’s fine . " The filmmaker had been tie to the movie for years and was at one decimal point considering direct the picture , so he might just be burnt out on giving a comic al-Qur’an motion picture project so much attention .

Spike Lee - Django Unchained (2012)

When it comes to directors pass up to watch movies , Tarantino is always in the photograph somehow , only this sentence he ’s on the receiving end of it . Spike Lee revealed that he boycotted the epic western , Django Unchained , which is about the titulary freed slave ( viaNY Daily News ) .

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